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"...if there is such a thing. Nota bene: the German word Dasein is literally "Being-there". It is our way of being—always already thrown into the world. All passages from "Being and Time" are translated by Macquarrie and Robinson."

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1. Heidegger isn't commonly associated with which of the following movements ?
    National Socialism
    Phenomenology
    Existentialism
    Dialectical Materialism


2. To whom did Heidegger dedicate "Being and Time"?
    Edmund Husserl
    G. W. F. Hegel
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Friedrich Hölderlin


3. In the beginning of "Being and Time" Heidegger mentions a battle concerning Being. According to this passage this battle is fought by whom?
    giants
    beings
    philosophers
    children


4. According to Heidegger, after the time of Plato and Aristotle, Western philosophy lost sight of what type of questioning?
    Questioning concerning History
    Questioning concerning Forms
    Questioning concerning Freedom
    Questioning concerning Being


5. Heidegger writes that there is something that "is itself a definite characteristic of Dasein's Being. Dasein is ontically distinctive in that it is ontological." What is that something?
    Understanding of Being
    Readiness-to-hand
    Being-present-at-hand
    Being-for-itself


6. "When Dasein is absorbed in the world of its concern—that is, at the same time, in its Being-with towards Others—it is not itself. Who is it, then, who has taken over Being as everyday Being-with-one-another?"
    Nothingness
    Obstinacy
    Anxiety
    The they


7. Something "throws Dasein back upon that which it is anxious about—its authentic potentiality-for-Being-in-the-world." This something "individualizes Dasein for its ownmost Being-in-the-world, which as something that understands, projects itself essentially upon possibilities." What is this something?
    Nothingness
    The they
    Anxiety
    Obstinacy


8. What is "that possibility which is one's ownmost, which is non-relational, and which is not to be outstripped?"
    Being-there
    Nothingness
    Death
    Authenticity


9. When asked why he hadn't addressed ethics, how did Heidegger respond?
    "In reality ontology and ethics are one."
    "Fundamental ontology is the prerequiste of all ethical inquiry."
    "I am not concerned with ethics."
    He simply didn't respond.


10. What did Rudolph Carnap write in "summing up" Heidegger's "Being and Time"?
    "A ham sandwich is better than God"
    "Language is here running riot"
    "Psychological observation made to pass for logic"
    "His philsophy is extremely obscure"


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